Preschoolers with a parent away at war were more likely to show aggression than other young children in military families, according to the first published research on how the very young react to wartime deployment.

Preschoolers with a parent away at war were more likely to show aggression than other young children in military families, according to the first published research on how the very young react to wartime deployment.

Multiple combat deployments to Iraq are increasing serious mental health problems among soldiers, triggering drug and alcohol abuse and contributing to record suicide levels, suggest reports out Thursday at the American Psychological Association meeting in Boston.

A new analysis of the sexual practices of 2,271 15- to 19-year-olds challenges the widespread perception that today's teens are substituting oral sex for intercourse to preserve their virginity. And the study, by the Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit that studies reproductive and sexual health, found that two-thirds of virgins who had oral sex had one partner.

Iraqi officials demanded answers of an Australian-owned security company blamed in the killing of two Iraqi Christian women laid to rest Wednesday amid rising calls for a crackdown on private bodyguards used by the U.S. government.